Surprise: Obama Goes Shooting ‘All the Time,’ He Claims

President Barack Obama has revealed that he is a regular shooter, according to an interview posted Sunday at The New Republic:

FF: Have you ever fired a gun?

Yes, in fact, up at Camp David, we do skeet shooting all the time.

FF: The whole family?

Not the girls, but oftentimes guests of mine go up there. And I have a profound respect for the traditions of hunting that trace back in this country for generations. And I think those who dismiss that out of hand make a big mistake.

It is odd that the president would make that claim only now, after several years of tough campaigning, where such a revelation would have earned him both interest and praise from the voters he once dismissed as “bitter.”

It is unclear whether Obama meant to include himself in his response; he is not directly quoted as saying he personally went shooting, but that “we”–people staying at Camp David–did so. He did not include or exclude himself specifically.

But if Obama did, indeed, mean to refer to himself, it would not be the first time he has boasted of his sporting knowledge or prowess–often without the evidence to back him up.

He has long claimed to be a fan of the Chicago White Sox, for example, but could not name a single White Sox player when asked, and incorrectly referred to the name of their home stadium as “Cominskey Field.” His basketball skills are also somewhat oversold: NBA commissioner David Stern said President Obama is “not as good as he thinks he is.”

In his infamous bowling stunt during the Democratic primary in 2008, then-Sen. Obama bowled a 37, rolling his first ball straight into the gutter as the cameras rolled. Later, in an appearance on The Tonight Show, Obama mocked his performance as being worthy of the “Special Olympics,” a remark for which he was criticized and later apologized

Obama’s shooting claim is evidently meant to assuage critics of his gun control proposals by reassuring them that he shares their enthusiasm for Second Amendment rights–not just sport shooting, but hunting in particular.

Yet supporters of gun rights insist that the Second Amendment is about far more than hunting or even self-defense.

As Breitbart News Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro told Piers Morgan during their debate earlier this month: “The basis of the second amendment is not really about self defense and it’s not about hunting. It’s about resistance to government tyranny. That’s what the founders said and that’s what the right believe in this country.”

Nearly two-thirds of the nation–not just gun owners–agreed with Shapiro in a recent Rasmussen poll.

Curiously, the president attempted to draw a distinction between gun ownership in rural areas versus urban areas, according to the interview:

Part of being able to move this forward is understanding the reality of guns in urban areas are very different from the realities of guns in rural areas. And if you grew up and your dad gave you a hunting rifle when you were ten, and you went out and spent the day with him and your uncles, and that became part of your family’s traditions, you can see why you’d be pretty protective of that.

So it’s trying to bridge those gaps that I think is going to be part of the biggest task over the next several months. And that means that advocates of gun control have to do a little more listening than they do sometimes.

Whether the Constitution recognizes such geographic distinctions or not, the president’s warning contrasts with the views of at least some law enforcement agencies. Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, Jr. recently urged residents to become familiar with the use of firearms for their own protection.

This much can be said for President Obama: if he is indeed as regular a shooter as he claims to be, he has not shot anyone in the face.

This narcissistic putz just can’t quit lying about things. He has shown over and over to be a dishonest creep with a tenuous grasp on reality. So, now he’s apparently a skeet shooter, PBA level bowler, NBA star, and expert on baseball. Well, I guess at least with those things he can’t cause as much damage as he could if he was pretending to be President. Oh, wait.

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Carney Shockingly Has No Idea How Often Obama Goes Skeet Shooting…
President Obama said that he “goes skeet-shooting all the time,” a comment that apparently has the White House press corps a little suspicious.
A reporter today asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney how often Obama goes shooting and why hasn’t the press corps heard about this before? Carney simply referred her to Obama’s statement.
Is there a photo of the president shooting? “There may be, but I haven’t seen it,” Carney replied.

President Obama reiterated his determination Monday to see Congress act to reduce gun violence.

“The only way that we’re going to be able to do everything that needs to be done is with cooperation of Congress,” he said at the start of a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden and law enforcement officials from the Major Cities Chiefs Association and the Major County Sheriffs Association.

“That means passing serious laws that restrict the access and availability of assault weapons and magazine clips that aren’t necessary for hunters and sportsmen, those responsible gun owners who are out there. It means that we are serious about universal background checks, it means that we take seriously issues of mental health and school safety,” he said.

The other argument you hear is that having guns against tyranny won’t work when the govt has planes and tanks, etc… Well, yeah if they want to just kill everyone but if you want to conquer or pacify, then it means boots on the ground and thats when the fun begins. Also kind of hard to start a police state when the people are armed. After first few thugs get ventilated, you’ll find fewer of them want to be employed in thuggery…

San Diego Police Chief William Lansdowne is fully supportive of the Obama/Feinstein gun grab, and says if lawmakers play it right Americans can be completely disarmed within “a generation.”

Lansdowne has gone on record saying: “I could not be more supportive of the president for taking the position he has. I think it’s courageous with the politics involved in this process. [And] I think it’s going to eventually make the country safer.”

He made it clear that it may take “a generation,” but new laws could eventually take all guns off the streets.

Never confuse the statements made by police chiefs, who are political appointees, with the views of actual cops.

necessary for hunters and sportsmen, those responsible gun owners who are out there.
He revealed way more than he wanted to with this. He just flat out stated that if you aren’t a hunter, you aren’t a responsible gun owner.

And of course the anti-hunting groups are another part of the Democrat coalition. If hunting is the only valid use for a gun, and they ban hunting, then nobody needs guns.

I agree – he should be fired immediately. I will send this to a few friends in San Diego and I’ve sent it out on Twitter. Time to bombard the Mayor’s office with emails. San Diego is a military town — it is NOT solid blue.

My ex police chief became mayor, signed the Bloomberg scumbags Mayors Against Legal Guns, then when the press outed him he quickly withdrew his support. He then got voted out of office as mayor, didn’t get picked by the won to be a federal marshal, ran for PSC, lost, and is now considering his next move.

The most hilarious thing I ever saw was when he showed up at a Republican dinner to kiss ass for votes. He and his wife wouldn’t talk to anyone, hid in the corner, and just seemed completely uncomfortable.

The odd part is, he was welcome there, and everyone was being really open and friendly. He was the one being a standoffish ass.

I guess the fact that people actually were asking him questions about his past decisions and actions as Police Chief got under his skin.

Democrats looking for a Akins/Angle//O’Donnell type canidate to beat Mitch McConnell in a primary and the Dems win the general

Tea party activists looking to oust Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in a GOP primary may get some help from an unlikely source: Democrats.

Big Democratic donors, local liberal activists and a left-leaning super PAC in Kentucky are telling tea partiers that they are poised to throw financial and organizational support behind a right-wing candidate should one try to defeat the powerful GOP leader in a 2014 primary fight.

[….]

“We are doing a lot of reaching out to some of the tea party folks across the state,” said Keith Rouda, a field organizer with the liberal group MoveOn and the Democratic super PAC, Progress Kentucky. “What we’re finding — at least in this stage of the race — we’re finding that our interests align. It’s unusual.”

Progress Kentucky has begun circulating petitions urging Republicans to jump into the race, and Democratic donors active in Bluegrass State and national politics are privately making it clear they’re willing to help bankroll a tea party candidate. Neither the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee nor the Kentucky Democratic Party is involved in the unorthodox efforts at this point, officials said.

He calls himself aConstitutional Lawyer, but he seems terribly unfamiliar with the Constitution. If he’d read it, he might notice that the Second Amendment doesn’t mention hunting. He might also notice that Heller doesn’t presuppose a right to hunt. His lawyer skills aren’t what they’ve been billed as.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. already is moving on gun control, proposing three measures Monday to increase data sharing and data collection on firearms and potential gun purchasers, even as Congress begins to consider President Obama’s gun-control package on Capitol Hill.

The first of Mr. Holder’s proposals would expand access to information on gun permits to American Indian law enforcement agencies; the second would allow law enforcement to access the FBI’s national criminal database to conduct background checks on people they’re transferring weapons to; and the third would authorize the FBI to maintain records on denied firearms transactions in a separate database for longer than 10 years.

@ lobo91:
He calls himself aConstitutional Lawyer, but he seems terribly unfamiliar with the Constitution. If he’d read it, he might notice that the Second Amendment doesn’t mention hunting. He might also notice that Heller doesn’t presuppose a right to hunt. His lawyer skills aren’t what they’ve been billed as.

He is not interested in the constitution, and is engaged in managing the conversation. My marketing professor in college used to say that perception is reality.

@ citizen_q:@ lobo91:
The real irony is that “common sense” has become the number one buzzword of the Liberals. The same Liberals that have been trying to destroy all traces of common sense in America.

Mars wrote:
@ lobo91:
Yep, most conservatives understand the difference. Sheriffs are voted in by the people. Police chiefs are political tools of the government.
The sheriff in my county was one of the first to announce that he wouldn’t enforce Obama’s orders on guns.
He was just re-elected in November. He ran unopposed.

How big of an Obama lapdog is Andrea Mitchell? Even bigger than ardent Obama fan Chris Hughes. The Facebook co-founder, who bought
the New Republic last year, recently scored an interview with President Obama that has been criticized for its generally soft questioning. But during an appearance on Mitchell’s MSNBC show today, even Hughes was more candid about the prez than Mitchell.

When it came to the President’s statement during the interview that at Camp David “we do skeet shooting all the time,” Mitchell claimed “he didn’t say that he was skeet shooting, but he does say that it’s one of the practices at Camp David by his guests.” Responding, Hughes effectively contradicted her: “Frank Foer, the editor of New Republic, actually asked him point blank ’have you ever fired a gun?’ And in response he said “yeah, we go skeet shooting all the time up at Camp David. He and his guests. Which is news to us and news to a lot of people.”

RIX wrote:
I know that there is a lot of sketicism about Obama skeet shootong
at Camp David.
But ask yourself, when is the last time that there was a skeet attack
in the area?
PETA will probably demand that skeet be put on the endangered species list.

Didn’t granny try to figure out how to cook a skeet in an episode of the Beverly Hillbillys? OTOTH, I think they got a bit confused, thinking the rhinoceros head mounted in the fancy eatin room was a skeet.

While assault rifles serve no legitimate hunting purpose, and their ban would be a welcome advance after the Newtown slaughter, illegal handguns remain the weapon of choice for killers and other criminals in New York City.

Ninety percent, or 2,493, of the 2,779 illegal firearms seized from suspects in arrests in the city last year were handguns.

By contrast, a total of 77 assault weapons were seized in arrests in the city, less than 3 percent of the total.

In only three of nearly 1,400 shooting incidents last year were ballistics associated with assault weapons.

@ lobo91:@ lobo91:
I read that long hours ago…where is the GOP response?…there is none, and you wonder why people like me just laugh at those guys?…the GOP doesn’t even take their own demise seriously, while others struggle to be the last to fall…what a joke

@ lobo91:
The progressive mask has fallen and been trampled on. But as long as the press continues to feed the public their daily pablum all is well.

Everyone who is capable of paying any amount of attention can see the attempt to grab the assault rifles is just a brief step in the plan. The object is to get as many firearms as they are able out of the hands of the law abiding public. They may never be able to accomplish 100% confiscation, but they can try to dry up the availability of new weapons, ammo, and accessories.

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) hailed the late Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy on Monday as a bipartisan group of senators laid out new principles for comprehensive immigration reform — perhaps handing opponents a weapon.

Kennedy and McCain led the effort for broad-based immigration reform that failed nearly six years ago, and McCain said this new push was nearly the same.

“If we do succeed, and I think we will, it will be a testimonial to Ted Kennedy’s effort years ago that laid the groundwork for this agreement,” McCain said. “You will find that this agreement has very little difference from that of the legislation that was led by Sen. Kennedy some years go.”

Reminds me of my contract in Houston back in 2008. We had a tropical storm come ashore (don’t remember the name) while I was there, and that was a big nothing. So I decided there was no need to leave when Hurricane Ike came in. Oops.

Are we getting a little far afield from at $1.75 a round for AR ammo buying at $0.20 a round could have yielded a profit? Or that ammo and certain reloading components were in short supply when obama was first elected, but not as bad as it is now?

I’m in ABQ, I live in the coveted North Valley, very nice…I’m 5 miles to downtown to my south…beyond that is the notorious South Valley…the tv show Cops made a fortune here, until the mayor cut them out…every sort of bad shit goes down out there..but that is miles from me, another planet within a planet…it’s New Mexico, where ever that is

@ citizen_q:
@ lobo91:
The real irony is that “common sense” has become the number one buzzword of the Liberals. The same Liberals that have been trying to destroy all traces of common sense in America.